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Obs Library Nelson Mandela day activities
We would like to do the following activities and hope the Friends can sponsor. Also, if the community can provide old clothes and things for our street store. Would you be able to put the word out? Date: 18 July Time 9am – 12 pm Street Store (Nelson Mandela Day activity) – free clothing store…
Support for Feed the Future
🚜 *Support Our Youth-Led Organization!* 🌱 We are thrilled to share that we receive a monthly compost donation to enrich our food gardens, feeding our community and schools! However, we currently lack the transport needed to collect this vital resource. 📢 We need your help! If you can assist with transport or know someone who…
Meet Geronimo de Klerk, Young Community Builder, Feeding the Future through Food Garden Movement
© Geronimo de Klerk World Food Forum (WFF) Africa – 29 December 2022 Mr. Geronimo de Klerk believes the youth are fighting hunger by not by waiting for the government, but through doing something for themselves. In 2020, he co-founded Feed The Future, his non-profit organization, transforming the place known for some of the worst…
News24 is searching for the Young Mandelas of 2024 – here’s how to enter
Do you know a young person whose love for and commitment to South Africa gives you hope for a better tomorrow? Young South Africans from all walks of life are reviving hope in our country’s future, and we want to celebrate them. News24 has opened nominations for this year’s cohort of Young Mandelas of the…
Home Composting Programme
July is the month for pruning and feeding, and also the month when we mow the lawns short at the end of the month. The temperatures of the winter days and nights are higher than usual, which means we can start pruning any day from 13 – 25 July in the frost areas. The Capetonians…
Home Composting Programme
Our Home Composting Programme, provides free home composting containers to residents to encourage all of us to start composting at home. Instead of throwing away your household organic waste, including fruit and vegetable waste, eggshells, tea bags, leaves, etc. you can use them to generate compost for your garden. About the programme We provide free home composting containers to help you…
Changing frontiers of wastewater treatment — ignore nature, or embrace nature-based solutions?
Anthony Turton – 26 June 2024 The human species is currently at an inflexion point. Can we mobilise the quantum of ingenuity needed to expand and advance our current capacity to treat wastewater at a rate faster than human ingenuity is developing new ‘forever chemicals’ and complex molecules used in medicines? The sewage crisis taking place…
Fungus breaks down ocean plastic
Every year, humans produce more than 400 billion kilograms of plastic, and much of that plastic ends up in de sea (photo: Naja Berthold Jansen/Unsplash) Publication date: Monday 03 June 2024 A fungus living in the sea can break down the plastic polyethylene, provided it has first been exposed to UV radiation from sunlight. Researchers…
Jazz at A Touch of Madness
Encounters has heard word from Michiel and Donovan that there is a Jazz Jam Session at “A Touch of Madness” in Observatory this evening @ 7:30pm. Dutch Filmmaker, Michiel ten Kliej will be there to promote his film: “Playing the Changes: Tracking Darius Brubeck” a documentary that revolves around Darius Brubeck, son of jazz musician…